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Network Radio BBC Week 27: 4-10 July
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Network Radio BBC Week 27: Saturday 4 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 4 July 2009
DISCO SEASON
The Donna Summer Story
BBC Radio 2 kicks off its Disco Season with a new documentary on disco diva Donna Summer.
Recipient of numerous awards, Summer has had many UK single chart entries but is probably best remembered for the classic tracks I Feel Love and Love To Love You Baby, the 17-minute track, co-written and produced by Giorgio Moroder, which is sometimes credited with starting the worldwide disco revolution.
The success of Love To Love You Baby triggered a series of albums that would blend the urgency of disco and funk with symphonic strings and dramatic vocals. Hardcore club DJs played disco epics Spring Affair, Try Me (I Know We Can Make It) and Could It Be Magic, while pop radio indulged in less lengthy but equally compelling songs such as I Love You, MacArthur Park and Hot Stuff.
In the Eighties, Summer collaborated with an illustrious line-up of writers and producers including Quincy Jones, Michael Omartian and Stock, Aitken and Waterman. She had a stream of hits including: State Of Independence; She Works Hard For The Money; This Time I Know It's For Real; Hot Stuff, which spawned the infamous scene in the film The Full Monty; I Don't Want to Get Hurt; and Dinner With Gershwin, from the All Systems Go album.
The programme looks at how Summer's music seems to cross many musical boundaries. Country singers, including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Reba McEntire have covered Summer's songs. Pop artists such as Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Whitney Houston, Robbie Williams, Britney Spears and Diana Ross have sampled Summer's material; as have electronic dance acts including Moloko; and DJs, re-mixers and producers, including Stuart Price, David Guetta and Moby.
Over the decades, Summer has moved on from disco music to soul and gospel. She continues to make new albums and to tour. The programme features interviews with some of the people who have worked with or been influenced by Summer's music, including Pete Waterman and Moby.
The Disco Season continues on Monday with Dave Pearce's Disco Anthems, when Dave presents a six-part guide to the last 30 years of disco culture.
Producer/Neil Rosser
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Steve Craddock, best known for his work with his band Ocean Colour Scene and Paul Weller, joins Bob Harris in tonight's show.
Steve plays the After Midnight Acoustic Session and discusses his latest solo project, The Kundalini Target, alongside his favourite tracks from other influential artists and touring plans.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 4 July 2009
Lucie Skeaping takes a look at what music was performed in 18th-century colonial America, as the Early Music Show marks Independence Day.
From the appearance of the Bay Psalter by the 17th-century Pilgrim Fathers – the first book to be published in America – through to the popular melodies of the War of Independence, it is sometimes thought that early American music is little more than Puritan hymns and marches for fife and drum. However, Lucie finds the music of early America to be rich and varied – a wonderful composite spawned by the many disenfranchised immigrants that arrived on America's shores.
In this special fourth of July edition of the programme, Lucie looks back on the music of characters such as William Billings, one of the country's first important home-grown composers; the important role that the Moravian people had in shaping the nation's music; and the significant musical role that some of the Founding Fathers themselves played – in particular Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Francis Hopkinson. She also looks back on the origin of tunes such as Yankee Doodle and Stars And Stripes Forever.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Chris Wines
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Rita Ray introduces one of East Africa's biggest stars, Samba Mapangala, with Orchestra Virunga, in concert at the 2009 Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar.
Samba Mapangala brings the infectious sounds of soukous and rumba from Congo-Zaire and blends with traditions from Uganda and Kenya, in this afternoon's edition of World Routes.
Presenter/Rita Ray, Producer/Roger Short
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Continuing BBC Radio 3's partnership with the Royal Opera House, tonight's Opera On 3 features a broadcast of Alban Berg's Lulu, recorded at Covent Garden and conducted by Antonio Pappano.
Agneta Eichenholz plays the title role in Berg's tragic story of the woman who destroys all who come within her orbit. Lulu's journey takes her from society darling of the glittering salons of Vienna and Paris to the pitiful squalor of prostitution in East End London.
The sumptuous score, symphonic in its scope and ambition, is just one element that has ensured Lulu's place as one of the undoubted masterpieces of 20th-century opera.
Director Christof Loy throws light on the dark psychological corners of this disturbing tale. Antonio Pappano conducts an international cast, including Jennifer Larmore as Countess Geschwitz, Michael Volle as Dr Schön/Jack the Ripper and Gwynne Howell as Schigolch.
Presenters/Suzy Klein and Philip Hensher, Producer/David Papp
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
At the back of the Bible hides one of the most influential but misunderstood books of all time: the Apocalypse of St John, also known as the Book of Revelations. Its 22 chapters are packed full of pictures and patterns that have inspired artists and composers – not to mention scientists, kings and politicians – and the book ends with a curse on anyone tampering with its text.
Between The Ears presents an hour-long radiophonic version of the text – from mysterious beginning to epic end – in a communal reading from a number of translations. Decorating and illuminating the sacred text – as it unfolds – is an array of music including iconic fragments from Handel's Messiah and Messiaen's Quartet For The End Of Time.
A Wireless Revelation is the sequel to BBC Radio 3's broadcast A Passion 4 Radio – in which all four gospel accounts of the Passion were read.
John Ashenfelter reads from the English Standard Version alongside vox-pop readings and the voices of regular broadcasters the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, Richard Coles, Kathryn Knight and Alan Walker.
Producer/Antony Pitts
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 4 July 2009
Gurinder Chadha OBE is one of Britain's most successful movie directors, having made the transition from television director to Asian niche film-maker and blockbuster director. Her credits include Bend It Like Beckham and Bride And Prejudice.
Gurinder was born in Kenya but grew up in Southall in West London – where her mum still lives and which is the setting for her latest film, It's A Wonderful Afterlife.
This programme is a soundtrack of Gurinder's early life – exploring the dual identity she quickly established, her home life and her relationship with her father, a proud Sikh who struggled against the odds to make a living in London. The programme celebrates the collision of cultures that Gurinder has always enjoyed, sometimes found hilarious and from which she has fashioned a series of warm-hearted films, including her first feature, Bhaji On The Beach, in 1993.
Producer/Susan Marling
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Based on Bruce Chatwin's final novel, Utz is dramatised by Gregory Norminton and tells the story of eccentric Kaspar Joachim Utz – who lives in Prague and is obsessed with his collection of Meissen figurines.
In the Sixties, a British academic is introduced to Utz. From this encounter, an extraordinary story of obsession and survival emerges. Utz has protected his vast collection of Meissen figurines from Nazis, Stalinist ideologues and the demands of Communist museum curators.
After the Soviet invasion of 1968, all contact between the men ceases and Utz dies. The British historian returns to Prague to try and discover exactly what happened to Utz's collection.
The Englishman interviews several figures from Utz's life as he tries to piece together the puzzle of the man and his vanished achievement.
Producer/Judith Kampfner
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
In 1946, the tragedy of the Holocaust had no name, no proper vocabulary and no literature – just survivors. Some of their stories were captured in a unique set of recordings only now being archived.
Alan Dein hears the remarkable story of Dr David Boder, the first person to gather these testimonies from those still trying to make sense of their immediate and terrible experiences, in this Archive Hour offering.
During the last days of the Second World War, General Eisenhower invited journalists to see for themselves the horrific discovery of the death camps.
Dr Boder took up his offer and, after a year of negotiating the paperwork and convincing the occupying powers of the worth of his journey, Boder – a psychologist of Jewish Latvian extraction – travelled across a shattered Europe to gather first-hand testimony from survivors.
With him was a state-of-the-art, if unwieldy, wire recorder. Sitting with his back to his interviewees, he began by telling them that no one in America understood what had taken place. He would then ask their name, age and where they were when the war started. He might also have asked for a song or verse that had given them succour during their ordeals. Beyond that, he would have let them tell their story without a formal questionnaire.
Boder returned to Chicago with his terrifying and shattering collection of recordings and tried to make sense of it all. For the next 10 years, he transcribed 70 interviews, began a card index and wrote I Did Not Interview The Dead in 1949, featuring eight interviews. Following his retirement in 1952, his work was ignored and then lost at a time when the Holocaust did not loom large in the public consciousness.
Over the last decade, with the rediscovery of the original recordings, Boder's achievements are now being reassessed and made available to the public and to historians. And, some 50 years on, close to a dozen former interviewees have recalled the day that this man walked into their camp and pointed a microphone at them.
Producer/Mark Burman
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 4 July 2009
Yes It's The Ashes Ep 1/6
Comedian Andy Zaltzman presents the first of a new, live, topical comedy show, looking at this summer's much-anticipated Ashes series between old foes England and Australia.
Andy is joined by special guests to poke fun at past and present Ashes series.
Presenter/Andy Zaltzman, Producer/Chris Skinner
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
WIMBLEDON 2009
Wimbledon
Clare Balding and Mark Pougatch broadcast live from the All England Lawn Tennis Club for the women's singles final.
Former women's Wimbledon Champion Jana Novotna is part of the commentary team for the women's final, which begins at 2pm.
There is also commentary on the third Test Match between South Africa and the British And Irish Lions, live from Johannesburg, plus updates from the racing at Sandown and the opening day of the Tour de France.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Clare Balding, Producer/Steve Rudge
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 4 July 2009
DJ and producer Erol Alkan presents the first edition of his 6 Mix residency. The founder of London's legendary Trash night at The End nightclub, Erol was a key player in the electro-clash movement in the early part of this century.
More recently, he has produced albums by the Mystery Jets and Late Of The Pier, whilst his remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Zero has been hailed as one of the biggest indie-dance crossovers of 2009.
In his first 6 Mix, Erol plays an eclectic selection of electronically influenced music, from future disco to psychedelia, alongside hot new re-workings direct from his studio in North London. Erol is also in the mix for 30 minutes, showcasing the tunes he's playing in clubs and at festivals all over the world.
Presenter/Erol Alkan, Producer/Rowan Collinson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Saturday 4 July 2009
Lionel Shriver talks to Harriett Gilbert and listeners about her award-winning novel, We Need To Talk About Kevin, in this edition of World Book Club.
The novel tells the profoundly disturbing story of Kevin, a boy who, shortly before his 16th birthday, kills seven classmates, a teacher and a school cafeteria worker.
Grippingly, but unreliably, narrated through the letters of his mother, Eva, We Need To Talk About Kevin raises questions about the nature of evil and the limitations of maternal love.
Presenter/Harriett Gilbert, Producer/Karen Holden
BBC World Service Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 27: Sunday 5 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 5 July 2009
Elaine Paige's special guest this week is actor and singer Gary Wilmot, currently starring in the UK tour of the Kander and Ebb musical Chicago.
Gary shares his favourite Essential Musicals, which include his West End debut Me And My Girl.
His other choices are the obscure Lucky Stiff, Barry Manilow's Copacabana, Frank Loesser's How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying and Cy Coleman's City Of Angels, which featured lyrics by David Zippel.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Brian D'Arcy reflects on citizenship in today's edition of Sunday Half Hour and marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin with some much-loved hymns.
Music includes City Of God How Broad How Far and Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken.
This week's featured choir is Cantemus Chamber Choir, directed by Robert Court. The organist is Hugh Tregelles Williams.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 5 July 2009
Michael Berkeley's guest today is actor Jeremy Northam, who made his name playing major roles in period feature films such as Emma, in which he starred as Mr Knightley opposite Gwyneth Paltrow's Emma; The Winslow Boy (1999); An Ideal Husband (1999); Enigma (2001); and Gosford Park (2001) in which he played songwriter Ivor Novello. Jeremy has recently been seen playing television roles such as Thomas More in The Tudors and the guilty husband in the 2008 drama Fiona's Story.
Jeremy comes from a musical family (his brother is a pianist), and his choices range from the measured control of Andras Schiff playing a Bach prelude and fugue to the brilliant improvisation of Keith Jarrett in concert from Carnegie Hall. In between, there's the radiant end of Janáčcek's opera The Cunning Little Vixen; the simple but moving love duet from the end of Act III of Puccini's opera La bohème; Earl Hines and Billy Taylor's Sweet Lorraine; and the Gershwins' How Long Has This Been Going On? performed by Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson.
Jeremy also loves the first movement of Schubert's B flat Piano Trio for its perfect balance of feeling and intellect, and the second movement of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, which he appreciates for its huge emotional range – likening it to the sun bursting through clouds.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
L'homme armé, or the "Armed Man", was a popular French song from the early Renaissance period of the 14th and 15th century and its melody has become something of a musical icon (William Walton famously used it as part of his film score for Shakespeare's Henry V).
In this edition of The Early Music Show, Catherine Bott talks to Edward Wickham, director of the vocal ensemble The Clerks, about the tradition and use of the L'homme armé melody in many 15th and 16th-century mass settings.
They discuss the history of the tune, why it was so popular and which composers might have been the first to employ the melody. Music in the programme includes movements of mass settings by Busnois, Regis, Palestina and the beautiful six-part setting by Josquin.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Rebecca Bean
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Stephen Johnson, pianist Ronan O'Hora and the Ulster Orchestra explore one of Saint-Saens' best-known works, his Piano Concerto No. 2, alongside a lesser-known piece for piano and orchestra – Africa.
Saint-Saens lived until the age of 86, and produced a large amount of orchestral and chamber music, as well as operas, choral works and, towards the end of his career, music for film. He was a remarkable pianist and his works for piano and orchestra are full of brilliance and colour. This particular concerto, written in 1868, includes vibrant melodies, Italian dance tunes and Chopin-esque flourishes.
Following the death of his mother in 1886, Saint-Saens spent time travelling to exotic locations around the world, including parts of South East Asia, South America and North Africa. Towards the end of his life, he settled in Algeria and his last works are often inspired by the modal Arabic folk-tunes of the region, as shown in his work Africa.
This edition of Discovering Music includes a complete performance of both pieces.
Presenter/Stephen Johnson, Producer/Leslie Pratt
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Drama On 3 presents Liverpool Playhouse's critically acclaimed production of Roger McGough's version of Moliere's comedy, Tartuffe, directed by Gemma Bodinetz.
Wealthy merchant Orgon takes in an apparently indigent religious man, Tartuffe, a beacon of piety who soon has his feet firmly under the table. But all is not as it seems, as Orgon becomes more enraptured with his new companion the whole city is alive with chatter, debating whether Tartuffe is a friend, a fraud or a miracle.
The rogue Tartuffe exploits Orgon's naivety and persuades him to sign over control of his house and lands. It is only when the family are about to be evicted that the King intervenes to save the day.
Moliere's Tartuffe was first performed at Versailles when Louis XIV saw the play for what it was – a thinly veiled attack on hypocrisy and the Catholic Church's relations with the state. The Archbishop of Paris threatened to excommunicate anyone who went to see it, and Louis had to ban the play for five years.
The cast includes John Ramm as Tartuffe and Joseph Alessi as Orgon, with Roger McGough taking the role of the Officer Of The King.
Producer/Chris Wallis
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The BBC Big Band broadcasts on both BBC Radio 2 and 3, and Jazz Line-Up has brought the band to Glasgow for the Jazz Festival with presenter Claire Martin both introducing and singing with the band.
Principal conductor Barry Forgie has been writing and arranging for the BBC Big Band since the Seventies and on this occasion has arranged a finale medley of tunes made famous by Oliver Nelson, which include a rendition of the classic song Stolen Moments, sung by Claire.
Special guest tenor saxophonist Art Themen performs solo with the band on numbers such as Prelude To A Kiss and Baubles, Bangles And Beads, based on a version by the Gerry Mulligan Quartet.
Presenter/Claire Martin, Producer/Keith Loxam
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 5 July 2009
Music promoter Harvey Goldsmith shares his Desert Island Disc choices with Kirsty Young this week.
Born in London on 4 May 1946, Harvey has worked with the biggest names in the music industry, including The Rolling Stones, U2, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Diana Ross, Shirley Bassey, Madonna and Bob Dylan. He has also been involved in some of the world's biggest live music events, including Live Aid in 1985.
Harvey talks to Kirsty about his life, his career, his favourite music and how he thinks he might cope with life on BBC Radio 4's mythical desert island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Complete Smiley –
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold Ep 1/3
Set in 1962 just months after the Berlin Wall has been built, this three-part dramatisation of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is part of BBC Radio 4's The Complete Smiley season.
John Le Carré's classic spy story stars Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley and Brian Cox as Alec Leamas, a hard-working, hard-drinking British intelligence officer whose East Berlin network is in tatters. All of Leamas's agents are either on the run or dead, victims of the ruthlessly efficient East German intelligence officer Hans-Dieter Mundt.
Leamas is recalled to London where, instead of being washed-up and consigned to a desk, he is offered the chance to gain revenge by becoming a pawn in a brilliantly conceived plot to destroy Mundt. But to do so, Leamas has to stay out in the cold a little longer.
Dramatised by Robert Forrest, the cast also includes Ruth Gemmell as Liz Gold, Henry Goodman as Fiedler, Michael Feast as Peters, Sam Dale as Mundt, John Rowe as Control, Richard Dillane as Peter Guillam, Jamie Newall as Ashe and Siobhán Redmond as Elvira. The dramatisation also features Liza Sadovy, Benjamin Askew, Philip Fox, Stephen Hogan and David Hargreaves.
BBC Radio 4 is dramatising all of John Le Carré's Smiley novels for its Complete Smiley season.
Producer/Patrick Rayner
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Every year devotees of the American poet Walt Whitman gather on the Lancashire Moors where, by walking and reciting his works, they come together for an unlikely celebration of his work, life and beliefs.
Presenter, writer and journalist Stuart Maconie is adorned with a sprig of lilac as he joins the happy band of walkers and "Whitmanites" to discover why the American, famous for Leaves Of Grass, and who never even visited Bolton, is still celebrated in this northern mill town almost 120 years after his death.
Stuart visits the Bolton Museum to view the Whitman collection of artefacts and correspondence. He also meets Paul Salveson, an authority on Bolton's "Whitmanites", who describes the relationship between the poet and this area as a story of "spirituality, sex and socialism in a northern mill town".
Producer/Russell Crewe
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 5 July 2009
WIMBLEDON 2009
Wimbledon
Clare Balding and Mark Pougatch are at the All England Lawn Tennis Club to present BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage of the men's singles final.
Commentary on the final begins at 2pm, with former Wimbledon champions Michael Stich and Pat Cash leading the team of top-name pundits.
Listeners can also hear the latest of the second day of the Tour de France, plus all of the day's other sports news.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Clare Balding, Producer/Steve Rudge
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Aasmah Mir presents a one-off documentary investigating how homophobic tensions in Iraq have intensified since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
Human rights campaigners claim that hundreds of gay and bisexual people have been executed or tortured, while others have fled the country fearing for their safety since Saddam was toppled from power in 2003.
In the UK, gay Iraqis seeking asylum are struggling to persuade authorities to let them stay. Aasmah hears from campaigners and those who have been persecuted to see how life has changed for gay Iraqis.
Presenter/Aasmah Mir, Producer/Ashley Byrne
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Sunday 5 July 2009
Cricket
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra presents uninterrupted coverage of the semi-finals of one-day domestic cricket competition, the Friends Provident Trophy, including Lancashire versus Hampshire, live from Old Trafford.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 5 July 2009
Dave Pearce is joined by dance music superstar Moby for a special edition of Dance Anthems, taking a look back at his musical life through his favourite records in dance music.
Moby – also known as Richard Melville Hall – has been a pioneer in the dance world for 25 years, from 1992's rave anthem Go; to 1999's seminal chillout album Play, which sold over 9 million records worldwide; and his recent foray into modern club music, 2008's Last Night.
In this BBC 6 Music special, Moby talks to Dave about his eclectic career, reminiscing about life on the early Nineties New York dance scene and playing records which have influenced and inspired him from Kevin Saunderson, Sabrina Johnston and Cabaret Voltaire. He also tells Dave about the genesis of his new album, Wait For Me, and how, after a long period of disenchantment with house music, he rediscovered his love of the genre.
Listeners can also hear an excerpt from his 2008 Essential Mix recorded at the Miami Winter Music conference, first broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 2008, alongside the biggest anthemic tunes from his career.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 5 July 2009
In an exclusive interview with the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet in exile, Sir Mark Tully talks to His Holiness the Dalai Lama about the tensions between his spiritual primacy and his political role in the shadow cast by last year's events in Tibet.
The Dalai Lama is an extraordinary figure on the international scene. The temporal leader of Tibet in exile, he is also revered as a spiritual leader, not only by his own countrymen, but by Buddhists all over the world. He is a figure also held in respect by both spiritual and political leaders of other faiths.
This interview focuses on the way that the Dalai Lama manages to match the temporal with the spiritual in his personal and his public life.
Presenter/Sir Mark Tully, Producer/Frank Stirling
BBC World Service Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 27: Monday 6 July 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 6 July 2009
The Chris Moyles Show celebrates one of the greatest boy bands of all time – Take That.
The programme features exclusive highlights of Take That's Wembley concert – a must for Take That fans everywhere – especially those who didn't catch them on tour.
Fans can tune in to hear Chris and the team playing all the best bits from the concert.
BBC Radio 1 Publicity
BBC RADIO 2 Monday 6 July 2009
Singer/songwriter Jim Diamond joins Ken Bruce this week to reveal his all-time favourite songs, in Tracks Of My Years. His choices include music from The Beach Boys, Bob Marley And The Wailers, Curtis Mayfield and The Four Tops.
There's also the Album Of The Week, the Record Of The Week and the Love Song, plus two more contestants will go head-to-head on PopMaster.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Diana Krall performs a selection of songs from her new album, Quiet Nights, including Walk On By, The Boy From Ipanema and PS I Love You, in an exclusive concert for BBC Radio 2.
Presented by Claire Teal, the concert was recorded at the BBC Maida Vale Studios in May of this year.
Presenter/Claire Teal, Producer/Sarah Gaston
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
DISCO SEASON
Dave Pearce's Disco Anthems Ep 1/6
Dave Pearce presents a six-part guide to the last 30 years of disco culture, from stone-cold classics to hidden gems.
Dave, whose first gig experience was seeing Sylvester play at Hammersmith Apollo, has long been a fan of disco and credits it as a catalyst for his own role in UK dance music. This is his essential, alphabetical guide to disco tunes.
In the first programme, Dave looks at the letters A to D, with classic tunes from The Bees Gees, Chic and Hamilton Bohannon. He also plays the record widely regarded as the first disco tune ever made – Soul Makossa by Manu Dibango.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 3 Monday 6 July 2009
To begin a week of evening concerts featuring the music of Haydn, one of BBC Radio 3's featured Compsers Of The Year 2009, Roger Norrington conducts the Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment in The Return Of Tobias. First performed in 1775, this Old Testament narrative of Tobias and his adventures includes entanglements with a sea monster and with the demon of lust, who has abducted and killed his new wife, Sara's, previous seven bridegrooms. Baritone Christopher Maltman and mezzo Ann Hallenberg are among the singers.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Anthony Sellors
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Monday 6 July 2009
After Lenin's death, his heir apparent was the dazzling intellectual at the heart of the Russian Revolution, Leon Trotsky.
As bitter quarrels broke out among the leadership, Trotsky was outmanoeuvred by Josef Stalin and first expelled from the Communist Party then exiled from the Soviet Union. After short spells in Turkey and France, Trotsky found himself living in internment in Norway but, as the first of the Moscow Trials opened, even Norway found the pressure from the Kremlin too much to bear.
As the New Year of 1937 dawned, Trotsky and his wife, Natalia, found themselves on a Norwegian oil tanker bound for Mexico, where he was offered asylum in the home of the famous artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. But Trotsky was under no illusion that he was beyond the reach of his old enemy.
Nigel Anthony reads Stalin's Nemesis by Bertrand M Patenaude.
Reader/Nigel Anthony, Producer/Jane Marshall
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Pauline Quirke stars in Sue Teddern's comedy as Michelle, a woman from Orpington who decides to strike up a relationship with Randall, a man on Death Row.
Michelle, a happy, garrulous woman with a great social life and an opinion on everything, makes Randall audio tapes to cover for his probable lack of education. She thinks that poor Randall, locked up all day, would welcome this outlet.
Michelle promises herself and Randall that these will be the unexpurgated confessions of a bubbly housewife. But as the relationship unfolds, it becomes clear that she is trapped in her house and she isn't quite as bubbly as she would like to think.
Producer/Jessica Dromgoole
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Bobby Friction tells the story of Dr Naif Al-Mutawa – the man who has created The 99 – the first collection of Muslim comic book super-heroes.
The super-heroes are a collection of Muslim characters each based on the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran, from a story of 99 precious gemstones each containing different lights and qualities.
The comic books are sweeping across the Arab world and will soon arrive in Europe. In January 2008, Forbes announced The 99 were one of the Top 20 trends sweeping the world.
Kuwaiti-born and US educated psychologist Dr Naif Al-Mutawa hopes to show the world a different, more moderate version of Muslim culture. The 99 have a variety of backgrounds, physical characteristics and nationalities and their aim is to reflect the Koran's values.
The books do have their critics. There are those, including senior academics in Kuwait University, who believe they insult Islam. There are others, such as one Kuwaiti journalist, who claims that depicting one character in a burka does not send out the right signals to young Muslim girls.
Bobby follows Naif and his team for three days in Kuwait on the eve of the opening of the first The 99 theme park.
Presenter/Bobby Friction, Producer/Laura Parfitt
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Book At Bedtime – To Heaven By Water Ep 1/10
Bill Nighy reads To Heaven By Water which tells the story of a man whose wife dies, leaving him feeling happier than when she was alive.
Retired news anchor David Cross believes he is more himself now, after the death of his wife, than in the preceding 40 years.
When Nancy was alive he kept secrets from her. Now he has a secret he must keep from his children, Ed and Lucy, namely that he is happier now than when their mother was alive.
To Heaven With Water, by Justin Cartwright, is a touching and often funny portrait of a family coming to terms with its loss.
Producer/Jane Marshall
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 6 July 2009
Russell Fuller rounds up the day's sports news and reviews the big stories from the weekend, including finals weekend at Wimbledon and the third British And Irish Lions Test in South Africa.
From 8pm Kelly Cates is joined by Ray Parlour and Darren Fletcher for the Monday Night Club, with all the latest football news and debate.
Presenter/Russell Fuller, Producer/Steve Houghton
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 6 July 2009
George Lamb welcomes North London indie kids Bombay Bicycle Club into the 6 Music Hub for a live session. Having formed the band at school, Jack, Jamie, Ed and Suren went on to win the Road To V competition in 2006 and open that year's V Festival. After building momentum through gigging they signed a record deal with Island at the end of 2008 and release their debut album today.
They cycle into 6 Music to play live tracks from their album and talk to George about this summer's tour activity.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Alicia Brown
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Welsh singer/songwriter Cerys Matthews presents her first daily lunchtime show as she takes over from Nemone, who is on maternity leave.
Cerys, former lead singer of Nineties Brit-Pop band Catatonia, plays the music she loves, from the hottest new tunes to lost gems from her record collection. She also welcomes a plethora of weird and wonderful guests on to the show.
Cerys also counts down her A to Z of classic albums, takes listeners on a road trip to different towns of musical heritage around the world and sets up camp in the 6 Music Hub for some unique musical campfire sessions.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley's live studio band is Django Django, who comprise Dave Maclean, Tommy Grace, Vincent Neff and Jimmy Dixon. They've been likened to the Beta Band, The Animal Collective and The Archie Bronson Outfit and, according to their MySpace page, hail from Dalstonburgh-Dunderry, adding to the mystery that surrounds them.
Marc's archive sessions feature tracks from New Model Army and The Great Leap Forward.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe digs deep into the archive to play The Specials in concert from 30 years ago and the band who brought Maria McKee to prominence, Lone Justice. More archive treats come care of David Bowie at the BBC in 1971, American Music Club's Mark Kozelek, Dressy Bessy and Sheffield's Comsat Angels in session.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 6 July 2009
Sean and Roopa discuss Aidan's return, in the first visit of the week to Silver Street. Roopa feels sorry for him but Sean warns her that he probably hasn't changed.
Elsewhere, Rajan bumps into Aidan in the park and they discuss Roopa. Aidan tries to persuade the old man to "borrow" the keys for the City Farm office as he is homeless, but will Rajan do it?
Later, Aidan ignores a message from his mother wanting to know why he discharged himself from the rehab clinic.
Sean (and Keysmith) are played by Lloyd Thomas, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Rajan by Aftab Sachak and Aidan by Arkie Reece.
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Network Radio BBC Week 27: Tuesday 7 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 7 July 2009
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of her death, All Of Me tells the story of a remarkable year in Billie Holiday's extraordinary life.
Billie Holiday fan Neneh Cherry goes back to the underworld of Forties New York to reveal how the singer was betrayed by her own manager and sentenced to a year and a day in a federal prison on a drugs conviction which eventually destroyed her career.
Using archive material from the narcotics officers assigned to her case, as well as interviews with people who knew her, this programme reveals Holiday's transformation from prisoner in a federal penitentiary to the pinnacle of her career, centre stage at Carnegie Hall – in just 11 days.
Using extracts from her FBI, prison and medical files, the programme pieces together the little-known story of how Holiday's experiences of betrayal, despair, triumph and success went on to influence her music and become the soundtrack of her life.
There's also another chance for listeners to hear a tribute to Billie Holiday recorded at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2008 on Friday 10 July at 7.30pm, in Friday Night Is Music Night.
On Tuesday 14 July at 10.30pm, Billy Crystal presents a new documentary celebrating Holiday's enduring influence.
Presenter/Neneh Cherry, Producer/Gail Champion
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 7 July 2009
Today's Lunchtime Concert is the first in a series of 12 concerts featuring members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, and was recorded in London city churches as part of the City of London Festival 2009.
Today, mezzo-soprano Daniela Lehner and pianist Jose Luis Gayo are in St Mary Abchurch to perform songs by Schumann, Grieg, Rachmaninov and Adolf Jensen.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Lindsay Kemp
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This year, the Florestan Trio is celebrating the music of Haydn, one of BBC Radio 3's featured Composers Of The Year, with performances of his Piano Trios in Berlin, Brussels and Vienna.
This concert, recorded at London's Wigmore Hall, features two of the Trios along with Smetana's Piano Trio in G minor Op 1 – a work written after the tragic death of his young first daughter. The performance is followed by some of Haydn's Canzonettas, sung by Elizabeth Watts.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Anthony Sellors
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Verity Sharp brings listeners a selection of music including the stately sound of the Japanese Gagaku orchestra, the ghostly Americana of Georgia's Horse and accordionist Teodoro Anzellotti playing Dream by John Cage, in tonight's edition of Late Junction.
Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Elizabeth Arno
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 7 July 2009
The Long View Ep 1/4
Jonathan Freedland returns with the history series that explores a moment in history which throws light on a contemporary debate.
Jonathan is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. A weekly columnist for the Guardian and the London Evening Standard, he is the author of Bring Home The Revolution, an acclaimed analysis of modern America; and a family memoir, Jacob's Gift. Under the pseudonym Sam Bourne he has published three thrillers.
Presenter/Jonathan Freedland, Producer/Julia Johnson
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
From comfy cushions to the collapse of Capitalism, Navid Akhtar examines the impact of Islamic design and values on the life of the Victorian designer, poet, craftsman and socialist radical, William Morris.
Morris was inspired by Turkish ceramics and Persian carpets to create a new movement in British design. For him, the Muslim world had managed to preserve the art of the craftsman and avoid the ills of industrial production.
Morris was influenced by Islamic ideas of what art should be and led to his famous advice to "have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful".
Morris loved designs drawing on the natural world, the use of repetition and symmetry and he believed everyday objects should be beautiful. He espoused the philosophy that art should be affordable and hand-made – this was already a reality in the Islamic world. Not stopping at arts and crafts, he was a passionate advocate of social utopianism and believed in the rights of the worker.
Today, these ideals have profoundly influenced a new generation of British-born Muslim artists as they rediscover Morris and look to his artistic work and socialist ideas for inspiration.
Navid takes listeners on a journey that has come full circle from the Arts and Crafts Movement to contemporary British Islamic Art.
Presenter/Navid Akhtar, Producer/Iain Chambers
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The early Sixties saw the emergence of an underground blues scene, which spawned some of the great rock 'n' roll bands of the era. Every rock band wanted to play the blues and the most conspicuously successful were The Rolling Stones.
Blues legend John Mayall with his band, John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers, was one of those young aspiring blues artists. In this programme, John tells the story of Britain's revolution when every city from Liverpool to Lowestoft was buzzing with the sound of the blues and every reckless mod was going crazy for it.
The root of this hard blues scene lay partly with merchant seamen arriving home with bags full of rare blues singles unavailable on any high street in the UK. They became the unwitting founders of this anarchic scene.
"They were like gold dust those singles," says Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. "If you got your hands on one it was like a fix."
Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker and Sonny Boy Williamson were just some of the great blues artists from the United States whose music started to reverberate in basement clubs round Britain.
The Rolling Stones were forming in London, The Animals in Newcastle and Van Morrison and Them appeared in Belfast.
"To start with we all thought we were the only blues band in Britain. Then we realised everyone wanted the blues", says Paul Jones, former lead singer of Manfred Mann.
With its gritty bordello sound, songs like Little Red Rooster and The House Of The Rising Sun introduced a note of social realism into the romance-dominated jazz and folk scene.
"It felt revolutionary," says Eric Burdon, former lead singer of The Animals, "And we felt like crusaders."
And the story didn't end there. Once the music had crossed the Atlantic it then returned to the United States, in its new rock blues form.
The programme includes contributions from Giorgio Gomelsky, Zoot Money, Eric Burdon, Bill Wyman, Tom McGuinness, Chris Barber and Paul Jones.
Presenter/John Mayall, Producer/Sarah Cuddon
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Bears Of England Ep 1/3
Bears Of England features three stories about bears by Mick Jackson, which mix fantasy, folklore and myth with history.
The first tale, Spirit Bears, explores people's fear of bears in the days before electric lights and oil lamps. At night the Spirit Bears come into towns and villages in ones and twos, clawing at doors and windows and running riot. Finally, one tiny hamlet under siege by a particularly wicked gang of Spirit Bears decides to take action.
In the second tale, Circus Bears, the bears are already deeply disgruntled at the extra risks being incorporated into their performance. No longer enough for a bear to walk the high-wire, they are now obliged to carry an open umbrella, or be kitted out in a two-piece suit, skirt or dress. Something has to be done.
Sewer Bears is the final tale, and tells the story of several dozen bears held in a 19th-century city's sewers, where they serve as the city's unpaid flushers.
Producer/Karen Rose
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Arthur Smith's Balham Bash Ep 1/4
Arthur Smith throws open the doors of his palatial Balham pad and invites an audience in for an evening of music and comedy in this new, four-part series.
Arthur turns his own personal residence into a little club where a specially invited audience come to see some of the finest comedians and musicians perform music in the kitchen, and comedy in the bedroom with unexpected guests in the bathroom.
Pippa Evans will be a regular while guests across the series include Alabama 3, Milton Jones, Stephen K Amos, Mickey Flanagan, Paul Sinha, Benjamin Zephaniah, Matt Holness, Stewart Lee and Glenn Tilbrook.
Presenter/Arthur Smith, Producer/Alison Vernon Smith
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 7 July 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch and Russell Fuller introduce all the day's sports news, in tonight's edition of 5 Live Sport.
Mark is joined by former England cricket captain Alec Stewart and a panel of special guests for a special Ashes Preview Show in front of a live audience, in Cardiff, as they look ahead to the Test series between England and Australia – which starts tomorrow.
Continuing the cricket theme, at 9pm, 5 Live Sport looks back at the career of one of England's most naturally gifted cricketers who had it all but threw it away, in Chris Lewis – A Lost Talent.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Russell Fuller, Producer/Patrick Nathanson
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 7 July 2009
Songstress Jesca Hoop is live in session in Marc Riley's Manchester studio tonight.
Jesca was raised a Mormon in a family of five children in California. Her childhood was highly musical, and was spent singing elaborate harmonies of traditional folk songs with her siblings. Pursuing her own path away from her strict upbringing, Jesca travelled throughout the States and became involved with many diverse fields of work such as extreme wilderness rehabilitation programmes for troubled youths, construction, farming and, finally, working for five years as nanny to the children of Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan.
By then, Jesca had already been writing songs and performing with a band, and Waits and Brennan took an interest in her songs. Through them, an early version of Seed Of Wonder made its way to music publisher Lionel Conway, who in turn gave it to Nic Harcourt, the musically adventurous and influential host of Morning Becomes Eclectic on radio KCRW in Santa Monica.
Harcourt began playing the song, and it reached the Top 5 for eight weeks straight, and holds the station record for most requested track. Record company interest ensued and the album, Kismet, was recorded in 2007.
Jesca was championed last summer by Guy Garvey, who subsequently invited her to support Elbow on their sold-out 15-date tour of the UK and Europe last October, and duet on new song, Murder Of Birds.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe features Van "The Man" Morrison in a concert from his 1987 Poetic Champions album era, and there is a live set from Beastie Boys' side project BS2000.
Gideon also raids the session archive for some musical selections from The Research, Amon Duul II, Pink Military, Norwegian folk-ambient guru Erland Oye and Full Effect.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 7 July 2009
Uncle Rajan falls again and Rita realises they need help to look after him, as the Asian drama continues. Pradeep searches for the City Farm keys, but Kamla sarcastically suggests Rajan might know where they are.
Later, Rita discovers why Rajan is carrying a cushion around with him – it is stuffed with cash. She suggests that much money could pay for a shared-ownership property, which wouldn't be like being in a care home, but will Rajan agree to this?
Rajan is played by Aftab Sachak, Rita by Bharti Patel, Pradeep by Ashvin-Kumar Joshi and Kamla by Surendra Kochar.
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Network Radio BBC Week 27: Wednesday 8 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 8 July 2009
Trevor Nelson presents another hour of the best in soulful music with the Jones Girls' At Peace With Woman as his Album Of The Week.
Valerie, Shirley and Brenda Jones spent more than 10 years in the music business before they tasted success of their own. During that time, however, their voices graced the records and stage performances of dozens of established stars, including those of Diana Ross and Betty Everett.
At Peace With Woman from 1980 was their second album for Philadelphia International and it boasts some of the sisters' best work. I Just Love The Man and Dance Turned Into A Romance, both written by Gamble and Huff, were major hits and the Jones Girls are equally impressive on album tracks that range from the nostalgic Back In The Day to a cover of The Stylistics' Children Of The Night.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker
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BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 8 July 2009
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Olari Elts, performs Haydn's oratorio The Seasons.
In his last important work, Haydn depicts rural life through the four seasons of the year, touching on the labours, courtships, hardships and celebrations of an unspecified community of peasants. The more solemn Ode To Toil caused Haydn to remark that, though he had been industrious all his life, he had never before been called upon to write music in praise of industry.
The singers are soprano Elizabeth Watts, tenor John Mark Ainsley and baritone Roderick Williams.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Anthony Sellors
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Verity Sharp's selections on tonight's Late Junction include a recording of the Seven Gallon Jug Band from the Twenties; music for an Anatolian wedding played by clarinettist Selim Sesler; Jonathan Harvey's setting of Psalm 116 performed by the Choir Of King's College, Cambridge; and the delicate sound of Balinese bamboo wind harps.
Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Elizabeth Arno
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 8 July 2009
An elite band of secretaries in No. 10 Downing Street, The Garden Room Girls are so called because they occupy the room looking out onto the Prime Minister's garden.
In their first-ever interviews, listeners hear from some of the "girls" who have worked at the very centre of Government over the last 50 years.
These are the women who've seen and heard the innermost secrets of life in No. 10. They've typed and handled key documents and travelled the world with a mobile office; and now they explain what it was like to witness, and be part of, history in the making – and recall the laughter and camaraderie along the way.
An unprecedented series of interviews feature Ann, who took dictation from Winston Churchill while he lay in bed; Linda, who broke the news that John F Kennedy had been shot to Sir Alec Douglas-Home; Tessa, who watched an isolated Margaret Thatcher open letters from well-wishers before she resigned; and Ann-Marie, who accompanied a stunned Tony Blair to New York in the aftermath of 9/11.
In a rare behind-the-scenes visit to No. 10, BBC Radio 4 takes some of the Garden Room Girls back to their old office. Also in the programme, Tony Blair tells listeners about how he relied on the Garden Room Girls to keep his show on the road – whether he was on a holiday beach in Mexico or in a hospital bed after heart surgery. And, when tempers frayed under the pressure, the programme finds out whether office equipment was ever thrown around.
Producer/Alicia Trujillo
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Baggage Ep 1/6
Baggage, the contemporary comedy drama charting the middle-youth crises of freelance photographer Caroline and 40-something, immature student best friend, Ruth, returns for a fourth series.
Written by Hilary Lyon, who also stars as Caroline, it's all change in Edinburgh as the original Celtic trio is reconfigured, following the unexpected death from cancer of the often-maligned, but painfully missed, Fiona, their closest friend of 20 year's standing.
One year on, Caroline's father, Hector, arrives unexpectedly and manages to simultaneously build and break bridges over already troubled waters. Caroline valiantly tries to pick up the pieces and to rise to the challenge of co-parenting baby April with Fiona's grief-stricken, estranged husband, Roddy, who has his own ideas about family life and the future. Being catapulted into motherhood is not quite panning out the way Caroline had imagined.
Ruth is played by Adie Allen, Roddy by Robin Cameron, Hector by David Rintoul, Nicholas by Moray Hunter and Gladys by June Watson. There are guest appearances by Phyllis Logan as the late Fiona and Nicola Grier as Miriam.
Producers/Moray Hunter and Gordon Kennedy
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In Chameleon In Town, which reunites the three central characters from Vicky Meer's previous Afternoon Play, Chameleon, Mo is back from the dead, again, trying to keep a low profile and build a new life with Donna Marie, the Scotswoman he met during his last witness protection incarnation.
Detective inspector Charles Baldico needs Mo to act as a witness in another high-profile trial, so Baldico plucks Mo and Donna Marie from the tranquillity of the West Country and sets them down in a house in Hackney, with new identities and instructions to strengthen their cover by integrating into the life of the local Mosque.
This brings the couple into contact with the liberal Imam, Tariq, who enlists Mo as driver of the old folk's minibus. Among the passengers is wiry old Aftab, who is on a mission to prove that there is a conspiracy to supply the old people's home with condemned Haram meat.
It's not long before Mo and Donna Marie find themselves in a confrontation with Irish gangster Simeon Gideon in his meat-packing factory. Gideon "exports" the unfortunate couple in a shipping container and Baldico has to work swiftly to save their lives.
Chameleon In Town features Navin Chowdhry as Mo, Hilary MacLean as Donna Marie and James Quinn as Charles Baldico.
Producer/Stefan Escreet
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Early on the morning of 9 June 2008, Dave Jarvis of British Divers Marine Life Rescue received a phone call. The coast guard had received a report of a dolphin stranded near St Mawes in Cornwall.
As Dave made his way to save the animal, he heard of more and more dolphins sighted in and around Falmouth Harbour. By the end of the day Dave and his team had saved about 70 dolphins, but 26 more had died.
Scientists from the Institute Of Zoology were on site by the end of the day and, over the last year, have carried out autopsies on all 26 animals. Their report is due imminently.
At the time of the stranding there was a large international naval exercise going on in the bay, causing many local people to suspect that sonar could have been implicated in the deaths of the dolphins.
The Mystery Of The Marine Strandings explores the science behind the rumours while presenter Sue Broom investigates what could have caused such an unusual event.
Presenter/Sue Broom, Producer/Geraldine Fitzgerald
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 8 July 2009
Mark Pougatch and Russell Fuller present the day's sports news while, from 7pm, Mark Pougatch reviews the first day's play in the opening Test of the Ashes series between England and Australia in Cardiff.
At 8pm, Russell is joined by Iain Carter from 5 Live Golf, looking ahead to the Scottish Open which starts tomorrow.
From 9pm, Window Shopping rounds-up the latest news and speculation from football's transfer market.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Russell Fuller, Producer/Alex Rice
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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Wednesday 8 July 2009
Test Match Special
Jonathan Agnew leads the Test Match Special commentary team as they provide uninterrupted coverage of the opening day's play of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia, live from Cardiff. Joining Jonathan in the commentary box are Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Henry Blofeld with expert summarisers Geoffrey Boycott, Vic Marks and Ian Chappell.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 8 July 2009
Gideon Coe plays a 2001 concert from Elbow from Guy Garvey's pre-BBC 6 Music days and also selects a Sham 69 gig from 1979.
There are also session tracks from angular post-punks Wire, 18th Day Of May, Music And Movement and Minnesotan slowcore veterans Low.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 8 July 2009
Aidan thanks Rajan for his help as the drama continues. He also suggests they keep their little arrangement a secret. Rajan later tells Roopa that he has met someone whom he considers to be "a young angel". Elsewhere, Aidan isn't being so angelic towards his mother.
Rajan tells Roopa that his angel sang him some indie songs and plays the guitar, but will she realise that he is talking about Aidan? Meanwhile, Arun is furious when he discovers who is back in town.
Aidan is played by Arkie Reece, Rajan by Aftab Sachak, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar and Arun by Naithan Ariane.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 8 July 2009
In the second part of The Greening Of The Deserts, Ayisha Yahya visits the Desert Research Station in Namibia to meet scientists who are collecting data to assess the impact of global warming.
The documentary looks at their work, including experiments with the harvesting of fog and work with desalination programmes to increase the available water in arid areas such as the Namib.
Presenter/Ayisha Yahya, Producer/Ruth Evans
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Discovery – Save Our Sounds Ep 1/2
From bells to taxi horns and the shouts of street traders, BBC World Service's new multimedia season, Save Our Sounds, is on a quest to make people around the world stop, listen and think about the defining noises around them.
As part of this new season, acoustician Professor Trevor Cox presents this new two-part documentary which features a range of experts including architects, urban planners, environmental scientists, sound artists, psychologists and social scientists, all concerned with acoustic ecology in the urban soundscape.
The series examines the impact of sound on people's lives and questions whether some distinct noises, from street markets to bells and street hawkers, are actually at risk of disappearing, drowned out by new technologies and generic sounds like cooling fans and traffic.
The Save Our Sounds website has launched an innovative interactive sound map on which audiences are able to record and upload sounds to become part of a sonic world-view and an online archive of global noises.
Producer/Rami Tzabar
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Network Radio BBC Week 27: Thursday 9 July 2009
BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 9 July 2009
A performance of chamber music by Haydn, one of BBC Radio 3's featured Composers Of The Year, by the ensemble Florilegium, can be heard in tonight's Performance On 3.
The programme includes arrangements for six players of Haydn's "London" Symphonies, made by the impresario Salomon, who first launched Haydn in London.
The full programme features Haydn Symphony No. 98 in B flat (arr Salomon), Haydn String Quartet in C minor Op 17 No. 4, Haydn Flute Trio in G Op 38 No. 4 and Haydn Symphony No. 103 in E flat "Drumroll" (arr Salomon).
Listeners can then hear John Mark Ainsley singing High On The Giddy Bending Mast, as well as other songs by Haydn.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Anthony Sellors
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There aren't many leading British writers so closely associated with recent European political history as writer and academic Timothy Garton Ash, who talks to Philip Dodd tonight about a career spent taking Europe's pulse.
In the Eighties, he was living on the other side of the Berlin Wall – researching the lives of ordinary Germans – and went on to write one of the earliest books in English on the Solidarity Protests against Communist Poland. In 1989, as the Berlin Wall came down, he was in Prague with Vaclav Havel for the Velvet Revolution. When Margaret Thatcher called together experts for an infamous meeting to decide on whether a reunified Germany was a threat to Britain, Garton Ash was there.
As Europe's fortune has been transformed over the last 20 years, from divided continent to an enlarged European Union sweeping to the edge of Russia, Garton Ash has been one of the most informed and influential commentators on its fate – not only in London but in Berlin, Warsaw and beyond.
Today, much of former Communist Europe is mired in painful capitalist recession. Reunited Germany has a more self-interested air to its international outlook. And, after recent elections, many voters in even the most federalist of European nations have taken on a sceptical – or even extremist – attitude.
Philip asks Timothy how he sees the world 20 years after that fateful year of 1989.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Eliane Glaser
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Verity Sharp's musical selections in tonight's edition of Late Junction include Mexican accordion pioneer Narciso Martínez, Valentin Silvestrov's homage to Tchaikovsky for piano and violin, Portuguese fado singer António Zambujo and the ambience of Murcof alongside a viol fantasy by John Jenkins.
Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Elizabeth Arno
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 9 July 2009
Art historian and surfer Michael Bird uncovers the universal and local significance of the painting The Wreck Of The Alba, by Alfred Wallis, the most popular picture in the Tate, St Ives.
Alfred Wallis, an old fisherman and sailor, began painting in his seventies using left-over boat paint and bits of cardboard. In the auction room, one painting recently sold for £50,000.
The Alba, which was wrecked on Porthmeor on 31 January 1938, lives on in the imagination because it caught the historic moment. She was carrying coal, dug by Welsh miners, to fascist Italy – part of Chamberlain's attempt to keep Mussolini and Hitler sweet. The courageous rescue of the steamer's Hungarian crew is still remembered by locals.
Alfred, whose work is also popular in Japan, painted the shipwreck obsessively, and his Alba paintings are among his last.
Michael tells the story of Alfred's great painting and reveals its wider political, as well as local, historical resonances using new material that he has discovered. He also interviews people in St Ives who remember the disaster and has access to many recordings of people who knew Alfred, made in the Sixties.
Presenter/Michael Bird, Producer/Julian May
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The Night Horse, written by Catrin Clarke, is today's Afternoon Play offering.
Thirteen-year-old Dee is waiting for her 18-year-old brother, Marcus, who has just been posted to Afghanistan, to come home.
Her mum, Sian, is apprehensive – something is not quite right. Dee is stealing things and hiding in her room and has started to hang out with another girl at the nearby stables. Sian's attempts to talk to Dee, however, are angrily rebuffed.
As Marcus's return approaches, things come to a head. Dee has smashed up her computer and disappeared. Her friend from the stables has no idea where she is but knows a horse has been stolen.
Sian immediately knows where her daughter is and goes to the house where she finds Dee, with the horse. For the first time, mother and daughter sit down and talk properly to one another.
The cast is to be confirmed.
Producer/Polly Thomas
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Shappi Talk Ep 1/4
Iranian Shappi Khorsandi, together with guests, explores what it was like being brought up in the UK within a non-British family, in this new, four-part comedy series.
The series looks at four different aspects of Shappi's life – unconventional parents, religion, growing up and, in tonight's opener, racism.
Shappi performs stand-up around her memories of racism growing up in the UK and is joined by fellow comic Felix Dexter, who was brought up in St Kitts in the West Indies before moving to the UK at the age of seven.
Each week, Shappi talks to another guest "on location", who has experiences in this area and, this week, she chats to actress Meera Syal about her memories of being brought up in the north of England.
Shappi also interacts with the audience, who share some of their experiences of each week's subject.
Other guests featured include John Gordillo, who was brought up in an unconventional Italian family; Stewart Francis, who was brought up in Canada; and Paul Sinha, who was brought up in a strong Bengali family. Shappi also chats to Lenny Henry, Ken Livingstone and Ben Okri.
Presenter/Shappi Khorsandi, Producer/Paul Russell
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 9 July 2009
Mark Pougatch and Russell Fuller bring listeners all the day's sports news in tonight's edition of 5 Live Sport.
From 7pm, Mark reviews the second day's play of opening Test of the Ashes series between England and Australia, in Cardiff.
Tuffers, meanwhile, is joined by special guests to discuss all the latest from the world of cricket on The Phil Tufnell Cricket Show, from 8pm.
From 9pm, 5 Live Sport continues its series looking at some of the nation's most popular sports with The State Of Darts, with Phil "The Power" Taylor and Matthew Syed of The Times.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Russell Fuller, Producer/John Southall
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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Thursday 9 July 2009
Test Match Special
Uninterrupted coverage of the second day of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia comes live from Cardiff.
Jonathan Agnew leads the Test Match Special commentary team, alongside Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Henry Blofeld, with expert summarisers Geoffrey Boycott, Vic Marks and Ian Chappell.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 9 July 2009
Texan trio White Denim perform live for George Lamb in the BBC 6 Music Hub today, bringing the ferocious drive of their live shows, where songs merge into each other and the playing guides the direction of the performance.
Their album, Workout Holiday, was one of Marc Riley's top albums of 2008 and Fits, their new album, will undoubtedly be among his favourites for 2009. The band's new single, I Start To Run, is released at the beginning of July.
White Denim are James Petralli (guitar/vocals), Steve Terebecki (bass) and Josh Block (drums).
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Alicia Brown
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Marc Riley finishes this week's eclectic offering of live music with Lord Cut-Glass, the solo incarnation of ex-Delgados Alun Woodward. He has just released his first album through record label Chemikal Underground.
Lord Cut-Glass's debut was recorded at the label's own studio, Chem 19, with former Delgados drummer Paul Savage on the skins, and Woodward himself writing and arranging the parts for an integral band of classical musicians from across Glasgow.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe's concert choices this week are The Undertones from 1981 and a solo Stephen Malkmus, from ULU, in 2001.
Session tracks come courtesy of Icelandic siren Emiliana Torrini; Brendan Benson, before he teamed up with Jack White; and the influential and underground Shellac. Spizz Energi make an appearance as Gideon's session artists.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 9 July 2009
Looking after Rajan is putting a strain on Rita and she eventually breaks down in tears, as the drama continues. Later, Rajan announces he is ready to move into the shared-ownership home, but what has changed his mind?
Elsewhere, Arun checks up on Roopa to make sure she isn't helping Aidan, while Debbie from the home arrives to collect Rajan and do the paperwork. Rajan seems cheerful enough about going, but is he just putting on a brave face?
Rajan is played by Aftab Sachak, Rita by Bharti Patel, Arun by Naithan Ariane, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Aidan by Arkie Reece and Debbie by Lorna Laidlaw.
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Network Radio BBC Week 27: Friday 10 July 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Friday 10 July 2009
BBC Radio 1 returns to one of the most exciting festivals of the summer – T In The Park at Balado in Kinross-shire. From 10 – 12 July they'll be bringing listeners live music highlights, the latest news and all backstage gossip.
Today, Edith Bowman's show will bring the opening day atmosphere from around the site. She'll be talking to the thousands of festival goers as they kick off three days of music and partying – as well as catching up with some of the Friday night bands, from Yeah Yeah Yeahs to James Morrison and The Kings Of Leon.
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BBC RADIO 2 Friday 10 July 2009
The Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band is one of the famous old names of the banding world and the band is currently flying high in the league tables.
They are conducted by one of the country's top conductors, Russell Gray, and the famous Pie Jesu, The Overture to Mack And Mabel and a well-known Slavonic Dance feature in a programme of music especially recorded for Listen To The Band.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 10 July 2009
The Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, conducted by Edward Gardner, play three Haydn Symphonies on original instruments and are joined by Lisa Beznosiuk in Mozart's Flute Concerto No. 2 in D K314.
Working alone in an isolated corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Haydn created music of an originality which made him famous throughout Europe. His symphonies, written for private aristocratic entertainment, are unpredictable and engaging in ways which continue to fascinate, two centuries after his death.
Their performance is followed by some of Haydn's Baryton Trios, from the Esterhay Ensemble.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Anthony Sellors
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Mary Ann Kennedy is joined in the studio by Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, an Australian singer-songwriter who has been blind since birth, whose songs in the Yolngu language present Aboriginal culture in a contemporary context.
Presenter/Mary Ann Kennedy, Producer/Roger Short
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 10 July 2009
Sir David Attenborough continues Life Stories, a series written by him and with subjects chosen by him, which are born out of his passion and life work in natural history.
His talks are personal and surprising and use examples from every continent and across the whole living world.
Some of the exotic species featured in the series include bower birds, dragons, archaeopteryx, salamanders and birds of paradise.
Bower birds are drab tropical birds that build "one of the most extraordinary sights in all nature" – a wigwam of sticks (bower), decorated with colourful objects together with a well-tended lawn, done to attract the female. Some of the vertical spikes of the bower are even topped with a single piece of caterpillar dung.
David recalls filming a dragon, a 10-foot long cannibalistic reptile, on the island of Komodo in Indonesia, and remembers it as one of his great firsts.
The discovery of a 150 million year old fossilised feather sent the Victorian world into a spin. Hot on the heels of Darwin's On The Origin Of Species, here was the proof that birds evolved from reptiles. David explores this in his programme on archaeopteryx.
David's first pet, at the age of eight, was a salamander. He also gave his own son a salamander when he was eight years old, the babies of which still populate the houses of David's neighbours in London. "In captivity, fire salamanders have been known to live for 50 years," he muses.
In the birds of paradise programme, David regards it as "the most glamorous of all birds" and says all are "incontrovertibly beautiful".
Some stories have an important historical resonance, others a surprising personal view and some give a little insight into Sir David himself. Across 20 episodes the series builds a substantial dossier of natural histories.
Presenter/Sir David Attenborough, Producer/Julian Hector
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 10 July 2009
Mark Pougatch and Russell Fuller present the day's sports news. From 7pm, Mark reviews the third day's play of the opening Test of the Ashes series between England and Australia in Cardiff.
At 8pm, Mike Costello presents 5 Live Track And Field from the World Athletics Trials and UK Championships in Birmingham.
From 9pm, the Weekend Preview looks ahead to the Scottish Open Golf, the Tour de France and tennis's Davis Cup quarter-finals; and at 9.30pm, David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos present 5 Live Formula 1, looking ahead to this weekend's German Grand Prix.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Russell Fuller, Producer/Adrian Williams
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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Friday 10 July 2009
Formula 1
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on the first practice session for the German Grand Prix, live from the Nurburgring circuit.
Producer/Jason Swales
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Test Match Special
Uninterrupted coverage of the third day of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia comes live from Cardiff. Jonathan Agnew leads the Test Match Special commentary team alongside Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Henry Blofeld, with expert summarisers Geoffrey Boycott, Vic Marks and Ian Chappell.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby League
Uninterrupted live commentary of Wakefield Wildcats versus Leeds Rhinos comes live from the Belle Vue Stadium in the Super League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 10 July 2009
Californian rockers Tesla take over Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show for one week only.
Formed in the mid-Eighties, Tesla's music was bluesy, no frills Seventies-style hard rock. They concentrated more on solid musicianship and maintaining a grounded attitude; and had a genuine affection for old-school hard rock rather than composing vast arena-ready choruses like many bands of the day.
In keeping with their unpretentious blue-collar roots, Tesla responded to stardom not by adopting the grand theatrics of their counterparts, but by stripping things down. Setting them even further apart from their contemporaries was their T-shirt-and-jeans image which was in strong contrast to the glam metal bands of the time, characterised by leather pants and flashy make-up.
They select some of their favourite tracks and play songs from their new album, Forever More.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 10 July 2009
Roopa discovers Aidan "living" in the City Farm office – and still taking drugs – in the last visit of the week to Silver Street. She throws his gear out but softens when she sees Aidan's reaction.
Elsewhere, Rita and Pradeep are shocked when Aidan's mum, Diane, arrives, saying Roopa called her. Arun and Sean also confirm that Aidan is, indeed, back in Silverhill.
They head over to the City Farm but aren't prepared for the pandemonium that greets them, where things go from bad to worse for Aidan.
Roopa is played by Rakhee Thakrar, Aidan by Arkie Reece, Rita by Bharti Patel, Pradeep by Ashvin-Kumar Joshi, Diane by Jane Rossington, Arun by Naithan Ariane and Sean by Lloyd Thomas.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 10 July 2009
BBC World Service continues its series from six documentary makers from around the world who have produced a programme on the same central theme of islands. Each documentary provides a very different local perspective on this topic.
Today's programme, Islands Of Security, is from South Africa, where a different kind of "island" is springing up inland – the gated and guarded residential estates which are increasingly becoming a refuge for the wealthy. This style of residential living is growing in popularity in many continents but, in South Africa, the subject of privatisation of space and keeping people out is a particularly sensitive one.
In the programme, for SAFM radio station in Johannesburg, Sibahle Malinga visits Dainfern security estate in Johannesburg's northern suburbs. This gated community has a seven-and-a-half kilometre perimeter, protected by a high, electrified double fence, guarded gateways and armed security guards. Sibahle's journey takes her to the nearby township of Diepsloot to find out how its residents feel about being outside the fence.
She also visits the outskirts of Soweto, where a wealthy man living without high fences or gates describes how his feeling of security comes from being known by his neighbours.
Presenter/Sibahle Malinga, Producer/Kate Howells
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